If there is a successor to Edward Said, it is without doubt Pankaj Mishra. For proof of this claim read his essay titled ‘The Sound of Cracking’, a review of two books cited below, in the August 27, 2015 edition of The London Review of Books (Behind a pay wall or purchase it at the Kindle Store)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n16/pankaj-mishra/the-sound-of-cracking
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'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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